I have to convert an existing distributed application to google app engine in order to use it's scalability advantages for a university assignment. I'm using a DeferredTask in order to do this. Now once the task is complete (or upon failure) I'd like to send some kind of response back to the user's browser but I have no idea how to do this. The google app engine docs don't really have any info on this either.
To send notifications back to user take a look on Channel API.
Or you can try to use datastore/memcache as a communication protocol between user and GAE. User will fetch URL every N seconds, and when entity is updated by taskqueue - do something.
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I need help with Microsoft teams integration. I have an system from which I want to send chat message to a particular user in MS teams upon an event in my system. How do I go about implementing this. The teams graph api documentation is not looking clear to me. Like it has body but no head and tail. I'm confused on where to start for this. I understand I need to use Graph API's create/send chat api to send messages but it says I need to configure a delegate user for this? How do I send messages on behalf of a external system? Can I can use Teams Java sdk based application? Or I need to create a bot? But I think it's for one-2-one conversation is it? I only want to send a one way message from external system to user. Someone with experience in this pls help me on a good approach for this.
All I want is to send chat message from external system to a user in teams.
You cannot use Graph API in this scenario if you want it on behalf of External system. The API is only available when you are having delegated permission.
Other option would be to create a Notification only bot. In this case please keep in mind that the bot needs to be installed in Teams of user you want to send notification. You can use this graph API to install bot in user's Teams- Install app for User.
Once it is installed you need to have user's Conversation.Id and ServiceUrl (maybe store it in database for all users). When you are done with everything you can send Proactive messages.
I have a java (Spring boot) web service which does not have any UI.
I want to send a dynamic Email (created using Thymeleaf and injecting values from a database) using my web service on a daily Cron schedule, using Microsoft Graph and O365 APIs.
Right now I use SMTP to send emails, but I cannot use it anymore as that is no longer going to be supported by the O365 account that I am using.
I found the SendMail APIs on the Graph Documentation which looks pretty straightforward.
But, using the Graph AIPs requires you to create an Azure AD project first and use their Microsoft Identity platform - which I created.
Now, the problem is that most of the flows also require a user to manually login from a login window.
This is where things get complicated.
I do not have a place to show a Login window to any user from my web service, because it is just a backend service there is no UI. I intend to use a service account for sending the emails through the Application.
I found a Daemon support as well, but it seems to only support Python or .Net code.
Migrating my code from Java to either of those platforms just to be able to send emails
does not feel like a good solution.
And, I'm not even sure if they even offer similar capabilities of sending dynamic emails like Java+Thylemeaf do?
Is there a way to be able to continue doing this using my existing code in Java?
If not, then as the worst case scenario, are there any libraries in Python which can allow me to send dynamic emails like thymeleaf does in Java?
As you don't want to manually login from a login window, you can use the client credential flow.
Here is the guide regarding how to access graph api without user.
Reference:
msgraph-sdk-java-auth (You can choose to use Client credential provider)
We have developed a Google Action with Dialogflow that responds to personalized requests from users and performs some tasks that require a certain amount of time, usually several minutes.
Our goal is to announce the result of the tasks using the "Broadcast" feature of Google Assistant, but we can't find a way to send the command to Google Assistant.
Our agent receives the user's request and launches a Java application that executes the task, so it is the Java application that must communicate with Google Assistant when the process is finished.
From the Java application we can communicate with the agent using Dialogflow RPC API, but not with Google Assistant.
Is there any way to send the request to Google Assistant from the Java app? or... since we can communicate with our Google Action Agent... how could we send the request through the agent?
In other words, could the agent communicate with google assistant to use any of its features, for example, "Broadcast ..."?
We have checked Google Assistant SDK as alternative, but we are confused about it.
Please, excuse me for my bad English.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
The "Broadcast" feature is not available to user-developed Actions, and probably not a good scheme to use in any event - if users will need to wait for a while for an answer, they probably don't want the answer suddenly announced when they're not expecting it.
Actions are typically meant to be conversational, rather than taking a while to reply with the answer, which is why there is a 5 second limit on how long the fulfillment has to do processing. If you do need to take a while, you have a few options available to you:
First is that you can use some other method outside of the Assistant to deliver the answer - possibly using something like Firebase Cloud Messaging or sending email to the user.
Similarly, you might be able to use notifications. In this scenario, your Java program would send a notification through the Assistant to the user when the information is available and store the result. The user can then activate the notification to continue the conversation and get the result. This has the advantage that the answer isn't just blurted out, possibly when the user isn't ready for it, but does have a downside that speakers don't (yet) support notifications.
You can also look into using a Media Response to set up a way for you to poll for new messages periodically. Under this scheme, you would fire off the Java program which would get the result and then store this in a way your fulfillment server can access. In your reply to the user saying you're working on the results, you would include a Media Response for some audio that plays for, say, 15 seconds. When the audio finishes, your Action will be called again and you can check to see if the result is available. If so, you send the result and continue or end the conversation. Otherwise, just send a Media Response.
I'm a beginner learning android app development.
I have a requirement for a user to be able to Read messages (just the body content - text only) from a Gmail account (Read-only mail extraction?) and save the email content within the app.
I don't need to retrieve messages when the user is not actively using the app.
The app and SQLite database I am building sits on the phones internal local storage. I do not have a backend server.
I have looked at the Gmail API tutorial here: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/
As I understand, I need to use the Gmail API and ensure that a user of my app can authenticate as a Gmail user.
Is anyone able to advise:
1) if this is feasible to do without a back end server?
2) any tutorials as to how to approach this, or would you recommend just working through the material I listed above?
3) (I understand this is highly subjective) how substantial a task this is to undertake for a learner (This is an educational project, so I am limited by time - if it takes me more than 3-4 days I will run out of time!) An idea as to how long it might take someone who is experienced would help me to grasp the scale of the task.
Google uses Oauth2 to authenticate and track applications connected with a user's account. You will need to get a security key for app from google. Because you do not have server, you will want to get a client only key and not the service key. You can get the client key by going to the Google API Console. For help about how to let the user sign-in to their account you can look at this Android tutorials here. After you get the google sign-in working you can continue on to getting the Gmail messages.
It may seem like a complicated process, but you should be able to have in working in a short amount of time if you go through the tutorials on Google's developer's site. I got a similar app working in only about an hour. To add a nice user interface will take longer, but thats up to you.
At the current moment, I am trying to understand how to add any data to GA. I read the data from my GA account using Core Reporting API and Managment API without any problems. But now I want to add the data (the number of phone calls) to GA account programmatically. Somebody can explain me step by step - how can I do this?
The Measurement Protocol is how we send data to Google Analytics. The JavaScript snippet that we use in our websites also uses the Measurement protocol as do the SDK's for Android and IOS. Unfortunately there is no (official) SDKs for the other languages like Java for instance.
That being said you can technically code it yourself in any language that can handle a HTTP get or a HTTP post. I have personally done it for C#.
POST /collect HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google-analytics.com
payload_data
The following parameters are required for each payload:
v=1 // Version.
&tid=UA-XXXXX-Y // Tracking ID / Property ID.
&cid=555 // Anonymous Client ID.
&t= // Hit Type.
A few tips to get you started.
Check out validating hits this is very useful in the beginning for debugging your requests.
some of the parameters are only valid for certain hit types. Make sure you check the documentation.
Cid is just a string it can be anything most people send a Guid its basically used by the server to identify a unique session.
if you are doing this for an application google analytics account remember to send screenview not pageview the same goes for web application.
check the realtime report on google analytics to see if your hits are getting recorded.
Update for question in comment:
I recommend while you are getting the idea of this you start with just using HTTP GET in a web browser. Its easer to test your requests against debug that way. For example put this in a browser.
https://google-analytics.com/debug/collect?v=1&tid=UA-123456-1&cid=5555&t=pageview&dp=%2FpageA
DP is document path and I am not sure why it is requiring that you send that.
ScreenView hit type VS PageView hit type.
There are two types of Google Analytics accounts ones for applications like android applications or sometimes web applications, and web sites. Application Google analytics accounts are meant to be used with ScreenView hit (the user checks a screen in the application) type and web accounts use PageViews (the user views a webpage). If you send a Pageview to an application Google Analytics account it will accept the hit but there will be no way for you to see the data. If you send a ScreenView to a web Google Analytics account it will again accept the data but you wont see it.